Christopher M. Curran: Activists seek racial tensions

Now that a jury of his peers has acquitted George Zimmerman and resolved that there was no malicious intent in his actions, we should consider that matter closed.

By Commentary staff

Now that a jury of his peers has acquitted George Zimmerman and resolved that there was no malicious intent in his actions, we should consider that matter closed.

However, activists such as Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are opportunistically heralding rallying cries of unfairness and prejudice to further their own notoriety and to empower their own social activist organizations, the National Action Network and the Rainbow Push Coalition.

To remain viable, these muckrakers raise the ire of minorities in order to justify the current relevance of their social activism.

Thus, they ignore the almost 50 years of positive social evolution since the Great Society programs were initiated in the 1960s. The apparition of bigotry will always remain in the vestiges of our country's less-than-stellar history. Yet, to deny the strides toward creating a truly egalitarian society is to deny our successes as a nation.

Cultivating animus to further a self-serving agenda is the diametric opposite of what the fathers of the civil rights movement intended.

Christopher M. Curran West Warwick

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